Charles Selby
Charles Selby was a 19th-century English actor and playwright, and translator of many French plays.
Among his works was The Marble Heart, a translation of Théodore Barrière's Les Filles de marbre. The play is best known today for a 9 November 1863 performance in Washington, D.C., where President Abraham Lincoln watched John Wilkes Booth, playing the villain Raphael. Booth directed some of his threatening lines directly to Lincoln, causing one of Lincoln's party to remark "he looks as if he meant that for you." Lincoln agreed, noting "he does look pretty sharp at me, doesn't he?"
Selby died at his home in Covent Garden, London, on 21 March 1863 and buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.- The Unfinished Gentleman
- Robert Macaire
- Hunting a Turtle, a farce in one act
- Maximums and Speciments of William Muggins
- Young Mother, a comic drama in one act
- The Married Rake, a farce
- Barnaby Rudge
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Boots at the Swan, a farce in one act
- Peggy Green comic drama
- The Marble Heart
- A Phantom Breakfast, a farce in one act
- The Dinner Question , as "Tabitha Tickletooth"
